WE ſhould do our Army a great deal of wrong, and not diſcharge our duty of thankfulneſſe to­wards God, if we took not the firſt occaſion to declare his goodneſſe, in giving ſo great a bleſ­ſing as he hath now done to the reſolute and unwearyed endeavours of our Souldiers, fight­ing for him in the maintenance of his truth, and for themſelves and their Country, in defence of their Liberties, and the Privi­ledges of PARLIAMENT. This makes us give you now a Nar­ration of a bleſſed Victory which God hath given us upon the Army of the Cavaliers, and of thoſe evil perſons, who upon Sun­day the 23 of this inſtant, ingaged His Majeſtie in a dangerous and bloody fight againſt His faithfull Subjects, in the Army raiſed by Authority of Parliament, for the preſervation of His Crown and Kingdom; We marched from Worſter, Wedneſday the 19, upon Intelligence that their Army was moved from Shrewsbury, and Bridgenorth, and bending Southward; our Train of Artil­lery was ſo unready, through want of Draught horſes, and through other omiſſions of Monſier du Boys, that we were forced to leave it behinde to follow us, and with it the Regiments of Co­lonell Hambden, and Colonell Grantham; and ſtaying for it, we could advance no further then to a little Market-town called Kyneton in Warwickſhire, ſix miles from Warwick, whether we came the Saturday night with 11 Regiments of Foot, 42 Troops of Horſe, and about 700 Dragoons, in all about Ten thouſand men; there we intended to reſt the Sabbath day, and the rather, that our Arrillery, and the Forces left with it, might come up to us. In the morning when we were going to Church,4 we had News brought us, That the Enemy was two miles from us, upon a high Hill, called Edge-hill: Whereupon we preſently marched forth into a great broad field under that Hill, called the vale of the red horſe, and made a ſtand ſome half a mile from the foot of the Hill, and there drew into Battalio, where we ſaw their•orces come down the Hill, and draw likewiſe into Battell in the bottome, a great broad company: Their Forces appeared to by much greater then we could poſſibly have conceived them to b•by the confeſſion of the priſoners we have taken, they that ſay leaſt day, Fourteen thouſand, which is the Earl of Lin­…Relation, who was their Generall; but others ſay, Eighteen thouſand, and above 4000 horſe and Dragoons: The winde was much for their advantage, and they indeavoured to get it more, which to prevent, we were inforced to draw out our left Wing t•a great bredth, and by that means, before the Battell was done, gained it wholly from them: In our right Wing were three Regiments of horſe,〈…〉Sir John Meldrum, and were of his Brigado. the Lo••General's comanded by Sir Philip Sta­pl•ton, Sir William Balfores, and the Lord Fieldings, Sir John Mel•rums Brigado had the Van, Colonell Eſſex was in the mid­dle, and Colonell Ballards with the Lord Generalls Regiment, his own, the Lord Brooks, and Colonell Hollis in the Rear: In the left Wing were 24 Troops of Horſe, commanded by Sir James Ramſey, their Commiſſary Generall. In this poſture we ſtood, when th•other Army advanced towards us, the ſtrength of their horſe were on their right Wing oppoſit to our left; In their left Wing they had but ten Troops, but their Foot which ap­pear•d to us, divided into nine great Bodies, came up all in front, and after ſome playing with the Canon on both ſides, that part of it which was on their left, and towards our right Wing, came on very gallantly to the Charge, and were as gal­lantly received, and charged by Sir Phillip Stapletons and Sir William Balfore's Regiments of horſe, aſſiſted with the Lord Roberts and Sir William Conſtables Regiments of Foot, who did it ſo home thrice together, that they forced all the Muſque­tiers of two of their beſt Regiments to run in and ſhrowd themſelves within their Pikes, not daring to ſhoot a ſhot, and ſo ſtood: When our Rear came up, and then charging all toge­ther, eſpecially that part of our Rear which was plac'd upon5 the right hand, and ſo next unto them, which was the Lord Generall's Regiment, and the Lord Brooks, led on by Colonell Ballard who commanded that Brigado, forced that ſtand of Pikes, and wholly broke thoſe two Regiments, and ſlew and took almoſt every man of them: The Earl of Linſey, his Son the Lord Willoughby, and ſome other perſons of note are pri­ſoners, Sir Edmund Varney, who carried the Kings Standard, was ſlain by a Gentleman of the Lord Generalls Troop of horſe, who did much other good ſervice that day, and the Standard ta­ken, which was afterwards by the Lord Generall himſelf de­livered unto his Secretary Mr. Chambers, with an intention to ſend it back the next day unto His Majeſty; but the Secretary after he had carried it long in his hand, ſuffered it to be taken away by ſome of our Troopers, and as yet we cannot learn where it is: The other two Regiments of our Rear; Colonell Hollis, and Colonell Ballard charged thoſe which were before them, and then the whole Body of the Kings Foot, except two other Regiments ran away: by this time it grew ſo late and dark, and to ſay the truth, our Ammunition at this preſent was all ſpent, that we contented our ſelves to make good the Field, and gave them leave to retire up the Hill in the night: But before we come to this, we will give you an accompt of what paſſed in the other parts of our Army, before our Rear came up to charge. Our Battle at the very firſt wholly disbanded and ran away, without ever ſtriking ſtroke, or ſo much as being charged by the Enemy, though Colonell Eſſex himſelf, and others that commanded thoſe Regiments, in chief did as much as men could do to ſtay them; but Colonell Eſſex being forſaken by his whole Brigado, went himſelf into the Van, where both by his direction and his own execution he did moſt gallant ſervice, till he received a ſhot in the thigh, of which he is ſince dead: Now for our Rear, thus it was; before it, towards the outſide of it ſtood our left Wing of Horſe, advanced a little forward to the top of a Hill, where they ſtood in a Battalio lined with com­manded Muſquetiers, 400 out of Colonell Hollis Regiment, and 200 out of Colonell Ballards; but upon the firſt charge of the Enemy they wheeled about, abandoned their Muſquetiers, and came running down with the Enemies horſe at their heels,6 and amongſt them pell mell, juſt upon Colonell Hollis his Regi­ment, and brake through it, though Colonell Hollis himſelf, when he ſaw them come running towards him; went and planted him­ſelf juſt in the way, and did what poſſibly he could do to make themſtand, and at laſt prevailed with three Troops to wheel a little about and rally; but the reſt of our horſe of that Wing, and the Enemies Horſe with them, brake through, and ran to Kine­ton, where moſt of the Enemy left purſuing them, and fell to plundering of our Waggons, by which many of us have received very great loſſe, and by name, your Servants that now write to you: Notwithſtanding their breaking through Colonell Hollis his Regiment, it was not diſmaid, but together with th'other Regiments of that Brigado marched up the Hill; and ſo made all the haſte they could to come up to fight, and got the winde of the Enemy, and came on (if we may ſay it our ſelves, but we muſt do the Souldiers right) moſt gallantly, and charged the Enemy, who were then in fight with our Van, and the right Wing of our Horſe, and as was ſaid before, helpt to defeat the two Regiments forementioned, and made all the reſt run, but two other Regiments which retired orderly, and at laſt made a ſtand, and having the aſſiſtance of Canon, and a ditch before them, held us play very handſomly: And by this time it grew ſo dark, and our Powder and Bullet ſo ſpent, that it was not held ſit we ſhould advance upon them; but there we ſtood in very good order; drew up all our Forces both Horſe and Foot, and ſo ſtood all the night upon that place where the Enemy be­fore the fight had drawn into Battalio, till toward morning that the Enemy was gone, and retired up the Hill: And then we re­turned alſo to a warmer place neer Kineton, where we had quar­tered the night before, for we were almoſt ſtarved with cold in that bitter night, our Army being in extreme want of Victualls: And about nine or ten of the clock drew out again into Batta­lio, and ſo ſtood three or four hours, till the Enemy was clean gone from the Hill, and then we drew again into our quarter, and there have lain this night, and purpoſe this day, God wil­ling, after we have buryed our dead, to march to Warwick to ref•e••Army, which is exceedingly wearved with ſo many n•g•ts watching, and ſo long a fight which held from noon till7 dark night: Two particulars muſt not be omitted, one of Sir William Balfore, who in the beginning of the day broke a Regi­ment of Foot which had green Colours, beat them to their Ca­non, where they threw down their Arms and ran away, he laid his hand upon the Canon, and called for nails to nail them up, eſpecially the two biggeſt which were Demy-canon, but finding none, he cut the Ropes belonging to them, and his Troopers killed the Canoneers: Then he purſued the flyers half a mile up­on execution, and after returned to Sir Philip Stapleton, who in the mean time was charging of the red Regiment, where the Kings Standard was, and had charged it home to puſh of Pike with his ſingle Troop; and they then, together with the help of ſome of the Foot of our Rear, utterly broke it, as you had it be­fore: The other particular was of Sir Phillip Stapleton, who, when five Troops of the Enemies horſe returned from purſuit of our left Wing, and from plundering ſome of our waggons and paſſed by the out-ſide of our Rear upon the left hand, went and charged them with his Troop and made them run; but they finding a gap in the hedge, got away, and returned to the reſt of their broken Troops, where they rallyed and made up a kind of Body again: If we had time we could relate unto you many more obſervable paſſages, but what you have here ſhall ſerve you till we meet: This onely will we ſay, ſome of both ſides did extreamly well, and others did as ill, and deſerve to be hanged for deſerting and betraying as much as lay in them their party, but God alone is to be praiſed who fought with us, and for us, and made it his own work, to give the victory unto his Servants: We have loſt of note, onely Colonell Eſſex, and we feare the Lord Saint-John who was dangerouſly wounded; We here ſend you a George, found in the field by a common Souldier, and bought of him for twenty ſhillings by one Captain Skinner; We have promiſed him he ſhall have it again; we only ſend it you as one of our Trophees that you may ſee it: we believe you will hear of very many of great quallity ſlain on the other ſide; The Kings foot are either ſlain, or moſt of them run away, and are now very weak, and ſhould have been purſued by us, but that we muſt of pure neceſſity refreſh our men for three or four dayes, and then we ſhall, God willing, addreſſe our ſelves to8 finiſh the work. In the mean time tis very requiſite, Letters from the Committee ſhould be writ into the Countries, which are Southern, to ſtir them up that they may riſe and cut them off, or aſſiſt us at leaſt againſt them; which hoping you will forth with do; We reſt

Our Lord Generall went laſt night to Warwick, and is there very well, and had he been with us, we ſhould not have preſu­med to have given you the firſt Advertiſement. His Excellence did gallantly adventure himſelf that day in the Front againſt the Enemy, expoſing himſelf to more danger then we could have wiſhed.